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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Edgar Allan Poe - Two Poe Tales

Edgar Allan Poe is best known for his famous short horror stories; however, horror is not the only genre in which he wrote. How To Write a Blackwood Article and its companion piece A Predicament are satirical works...

Catharine Eastman 58 minutes

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Curious Case of Benjamin Button (version 2)

Humorous Fiction

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F. Scott Fitzgerald - Curious Case of Benjamin Button (version 2)

The curious Case of Benjamin Button, a 1921 short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, now a major motion picture, features Benjamin Button, who, born as an old man much to the dismay and chagrin of his father and family...

John W. Michaels 1 hour

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Humorous Fiction

542

Guy Wetmore Carryl - Mother Goose for Grownups

Mother Goose for Grownups is a delightfully silly collection of parodies on well-known Mother Goose tales by Guy Wetmore Carryl. (Summary by fink)

Joseph Finkberg and 11 more 1 hour 7 minutes

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1601: Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors

Dramatic Readings

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Mark Twain - 1601: Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors

Please note: this recording contains strong language. «1601,» wrote Mark Twain, «is a supposititious conversation which takes place in Queen Elizabeth's closet in that year, between the Queen, Ben Jonson,...

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Children's Fiction

529

Anonymous - Vice in its Proper Shape

Or, The Wonderful and Melancholy Transformation of Several Naughty Masters and Misses Into Those Contemptible Animals Which They Most Resemble In Disposition, Cautionary tales of the transmigration of the souls of...

David Barnes and 5 more 1 hour 27 minutes

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Family Life

573

Mark Twain - Dog's Tale

This short novel of Twain’s, from 1903, is told from the point of view of a loyal and beloved family pet. Themes of heroics, valor and heart-wrenching tenderness fill this work. The story is also filled with happy...

Aaron Elliott 29 minutes

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Epistolary Fiction

574

Edward Streeter - Dere Mable

Bill is in training camp, preparing to go off to World War I. This book is a collection of love letters written to his sweetheart, Mable. The letters are humorous, mis-spelled, and have many stories of life in an...

Rob Kunkel 1 hour 3 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

564

Guy Wetmore Carryl - Grimm Tales Made Gay

A comic rendering in verse of well-loved Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm, each ending with a moral and full of puns. The titles of the tales themselves make another verse.(Summary by Annise)

Patrick Barringer and 2 more 1 hour 6 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

536

Scott Hemphill - First Fifty Digits of Pi

56 flavors of Pi proudly produced by LibriVox volunteers to celebrate Pi Day, 2008. (3/14) Don't worry, you don't have to listen to an infinite string of numbers: each reader presents just the first 50 digits in...

Jonathan Horniblow and 18 more 52 minutes

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General Fiction

545

Oscar Wilde - Aphorisms

In 1894, Oscar Wilde (1854 — 1900) published two collections of aphorisms: A Few Maxims For The Instruction Of The Over-Educated , in the Saturday Review newspaper, and Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the...

Carl Manchester 11 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

506

Jane Austen - Love and Freindship

Love and Freindship [sic] is a juvenile story by Jane Austen, dated 1790, when Austen was 14 years old. Love and Freindship (the misspelling is one of many in the story) is clearly a parody of romantic novels...

Cori Samuel 1 hour 9 minutes

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Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven

Humorous Fiction

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Mark Twain - Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven

«Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven» is a short-story written by American writer Mark Twain and published in 1909. The story follows Captain Stormfield on his extremely long cosmic journey to heaven, his accidental...

Kevin LaVergne 1 hour 28 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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